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Driving in Massachusetts over the weekend I saw something strange indeed.
I saw a big wide load flatbed truck towing a fully shrink wrapped and very pretty monster of a boat that probably just came from a factory somewhere. I have been noticing for a long time that I/O's frequently share some of the lines of a high-end inboard wakeboarding boat but this thing was different.
This boat looked like a Super Air Nautique 230 and added 10 feet to it.
It was so Correct Craft looking in its lines and general form. When silhouetted the way I've described and simplified by the shrinkwrap I could have scanned the thing and drawn a 230 like a kid with a coloring book.
It was huge and it was impressive, it had 2 stern drives (I couldn't tell if they were that new Volvo safety reverse prop thing). The tower was the clincher. The tower was brushed aluminum (I think) or maybe white with parts of it taped off or something. The tower looked very similar to the standard/conventional FCT they put on the 230 -- by that I mean not the Roswell forward sweeping thing.
The similarities were almost endless. This boat even had the same sort of tower one would find on that year's 230.
But this boat was clearly too big to towed
I saw a big wide load flatbed truck towing a fully shrink wrapped and very pretty monster of a boat that probably just came from a factory somewhere. I have been noticing for a long time that I/O's frequently share some of the lines of a high-end inboard wakeboarding boat but this thing was different.
This boat looked like a Super Air Nautique 230 and added 10 feet to it.
It was so Correct Craft looking in its lines and general form. When silhouetted the way I've described and simplified by the shrinkwrap I could have scanned the thing and drawn a 230 like a kid with a coloring book.
It was huge and it was impressive, it had 2 stern drives (I couldn't tell if they were that new Volvo safety reverse prop thing). The tower was the clincher. The tower was brushed aluminum (I think) or maybe white with parts of it taped off or something. The tower looked very similar to the standard/conventional FCT they put on the 230 -- by that I mean not the Roswell forward sweeping thing.
The similarities were almost endless. This boat even had the same sort of tower one would find on that year's 230.
But this boat was clearly too big to towed